Railway building game

[LNERW1]

Just thought I'd share here a video game called NIMBY Rails. In short, it is a railway building game that allows you to build anywhere on a map of the real world, with several different types of track, ie 350km/h high speed, 160km/h medium speed, and 60km/h tram lines. I get the feeling it's suited for this forum as you have the option not only to replicate the current Irish network (or that of anywhere else in the world, for that matter), you can also rebuild closed lines that you think should still be open, or leave out those you consider pointless. I found it a while ago after stumbling across the Reddit page for the game and have since began working on my own Irish network, pictured below:

The trains are colour coded based on purpose/operator, colours are listed below:

Dark green- Iarnród Éireann (mainline)

Light Green- Iarnród Éireann (suburban)- at the moment only DART

Light Purple- Luas

Dark Turquoise- NIR (mainline)

Light Turquoise- NIR (suburban)

Red- Trams/Metro outside Dublin

My network is far from finished, but I thought it would be a good example for what can be accomplished and frankly I'd love to see what this forum could come up with.

Some links that may be helpful:

Wikipedia Page

Wiki

Steam Page

Subreddit

Since I found this game I've been desperate for someone to share it with and I decided this forum was probably the best place. I also wanted to show off my own network as I am very happy with how it's coming along.

I hope I've helped someone find a game they'll enjoy.

All the best,

LNERW1

[leslie10646]

Thanks for the Heads-up @LNERW1. Looks interesting.

I got into railway building games when I discovered "1829", as developed by the late Francis Tresham. It is so called because the map of GB is clear of main line railways - the Liverpool and Manchester opened the next year.

I first bought the game in Liverpool about 45 years ago.

There are now many versions, depending on the country -

1825 (the date of the Stockton and Darlington);

1835 is Germany (a brilliant evolution of Tresham's original idea);

1853 India;

and lots of US versions such as 1830 (US generally); 1876 (Texas)etc.

Their great plus is that you play with other people.

My pals and I (typically 5 or 6) would start at 10am on a Saturday, adjourn for lunch about 1330 and then play through to about 7pm. We'd go out for a curry and then disperse to the four points of the compass.

My younger son met Francis about ten years ago, and he was interested in doing 1834 (D&K in case you've forgotten), alas I hadn't the time to get it moving!

If anyone is in Surrey or near Reading, I'd be delighted to host a game of one of the six versions I have! It can be played with two or more.

Leslie

[Branchline121]

I used to enjoy playing a game called ‘Railway Empire’ (Wikipedia) on the Xbox years ago… it even had a map of Ireland to build on, but most of the game was based around the Great Plains of America — and the stock for the Ireland + GB DLC was mostly recycled French locos. I think there’s a sequel by this point but I never got around to playing it, but I might at some point as the first one was a fairly decent strategy game.